Park Slope Taxi Tales, Part Two: Taxi Accident

[Via TheCarConnection.com]

This is the second part of a three-part series on my time driving a taxi out of the garage on 4th Avenue in Park Slope. Read Part One here! 

NYC cab drivers are known for driving like maniacs. I didn't. But there was this one time I did get into an accident...

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Bravo Is Giving Us Free Rides To Brooklyn

[VIA NINEDAVES]

Over the years of living here in NYC, I've seen a lot of crazy promotional marketing events that attempt to spread the word about a product/movie/tv show while grabbing the attention of the general public. Usually, they feel like bad Celebrity Apprentice tasks: forced, lackluster, and in no way shape or form worth the time one would take to participate. Example: for the launch of White Collar, USA had an event in Rockefeller Center where they gave everyone a free custom-made white button down shirt. It was a 6-hour wait. Cool idea, terrible execution. 

But I did a double take the other day when I read about Bravo's promotional tie-in for their new show, Interior Therapy with Jeff Lewis. Bravo's releasing 10 redesigned rides onto the streets of NYC, and giving people free rides to wherever they want. That's right - FREE. They're calling it The Interior Therapy Taxi Takeover, and it'll run all over Manhattan through Wednesday evening. 

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Cab Drivers (Still) Hate Driving You To Brooklyn

[VIA PIERRE COROLLER]

Back in May, when Bloomberg signed a law into effect increasing fines against taxi drivers who refused to take passengers where they want to go, we hoped that the problem of getting a cab to Brooklyn would get better. 

According to a new study done by the Taxi and Limousine Commission, things are still pretty much shit. Paying student $10 an hour to pose as cab riders, the TLC study revealed that roughly 27 percent of the time, cab drivers refused to go to the outer boroughs. That's about 1,330 yellow cabs hailed, and 361 riders denied.

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